$8 million of Bill Clinton speaking cash speaks for itself

The Wall Street Journal reports that more than two dozen companies and groups and one foreign government paid former President Bill Clinton a total of more than $8 million to give speeches around the time they also had matters before Hillary Clinton’s State Department. In addition, fifteen of these companies/groups donated a total of between $5 million and $15 million to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

In some of these instances, according to the Journal, Hillary’s State Department subsequently took action favorable to the outfit that paid Bill to speak:

Mr. Clinton, for example, collected $1 million for two appearances sponsored by the Abu Dhabi government that were arranged while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state. His speeches there came during and after the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security were involved in discussions about a plan to open a U.S. facility in the Abu Dhabi airport to ease visa processing for travel to the U.S.

The State Department supported the facility in the face of substantial opposition from unions, members of Congress and others.

Here are some of the companies that paid the former president to speak while they had business pending before Hillary’s State Department:

According to the IB Times, moreover, Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved $165 billion in arms deals to nations that had previously given money to the Clinton Foundation. The charity also received $7 million in donations from companies that benefited directly from State Department arms export approvals.